Motivational Quotes

Morality

The higher the building the lower the morals.

- Coward, Noel

Best Quotes about Morality

The fatal trait of the times is the divorce between religion and morality.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

No moral system can rest solely on authority.

A. J. Ayer

The aim of morality is to give people a standard of action and a motive to work by which, they will not intensify each person's selfishness, but raise them up above it.

Sharpe, Cecil J.

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. So aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.

Thoreau, Henry David

Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.

King Jr. Martin Luther

Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning -- an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

We moralize among ruins.

Disraeli, Benjamin

The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue.

Froude, James A.

Morality is herd instinct in the individual.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice, and another which we practice but seldom preach.

Bertrand Russell

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Just as there's garbage that pollutes the Potomac river, there is garbage polluting our culture. We need an Environmental Protection Agency to clean it up.

Buchanan, Patrick

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There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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No author can be as moral as his work and no preacher as pious as his sermons.

Paul, Jean

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Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

Kant, Immanuel

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We become moral when we are unhappy.

Proust, Marcel

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The great rule of moral conduct is next to God, respect time.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Morality is the attitude we adopt toward people whom we personally dislike.

Wilde, Oscar

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Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

Oscar Wilde

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I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.

G. K. Chesterton

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Mercy to living beings, self restraint, truth, honesty, chastity and contentment, right faith and knowledge, and austerity are but the entourage of morality.

Sila-Prabhrita

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There is no such thing as morality or immorality in thought. There is immoral emotion.

Wilde, Oscar

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To give a man full knowledge of morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament.

Locke, John

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Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.

Henry David Thoreau

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The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny.

Weil, Simone

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Scandal is great entertainment because it allows people to feel contempt, a moral emotion that gives feeling of moral superiority while asking nothing in return.

Jonathan Haidt

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The end never really justifies the meanness.

Hulse, E. Duane

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The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.

Kraus, Karl

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In Los Angeles, it's like they jog for two hours a day and then they think they're morally right. That's when you want to choke people, you know?

Neeson, Liam

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Many people convince themselves if it is economically necessary, it's morally right. That's not always the case.

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A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.

Diderot, Denis

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The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.

Huxley, Aldous

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There is nothing so bad but it can masquerade as moral.

Lippmann, Walter

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The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil.

Bataille, Georges

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Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine order.

Hume, Basil

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There are few things more disturbing than to find, in somebody we detest, a moral quality which seems to us demonstrably superior to anything we ourselves possess. It augurs not merely an unfairness on the part of creation, but a lack of artistic judgment. Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.

Johnson, Pamela Hansford

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Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.

Hattersley, Roy

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A set of rules laid out by professionals to show the way they would like to act if it was profitable.

Dane, Frank

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A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

Socrates

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He that has not religion to govern his morality, is not a dram better than my mastiff-dog; so long as you stroke him, and please him, and do not pinch him, he will play with you as finely as may be, he is a very good moral mastiff; but if you hurt him, he will fly in your face, and tear out your throat.

Selden, John

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The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.

Rand, Ayn

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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

Durant, William J.

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Unfortunately, moral beauty in art -- like physical beauty in a person -- is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so durable as artistic or intellectual beauty. Moral beauty has a tendency to decay very rapidly into sententiousness or untimeliness.

Sontag, Susan

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I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.

Seneca

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It is almost systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no difference between right and wrong.

France, Anatole

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There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.

Denis Diderot

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What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

Hemingway, Ernest